DiversityRate - A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TRUST,

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DiversityRate - A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TRUST, REPUTATION AND RATING SYSTEM By Mary Namayanja “Human and not financial capital must be the starting point and ongoing foundation of a successful strategy” - Barlett & ghoshal Problem Statement In 2020, worldwide racial injustice riots mainly driven by Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the US after the George Floyd murder led to recognition that racial injustice problem had not been solved. In Corporate America, this resulted in a shifting mindset and movement on D&I at the workplace and many companies have revamped the old D&I framework, emphasized D&I accountability at leadership level and hired new D&I executives. These internal efforts are a positive step in the right direction however, an industry standard or index does not exist to continuously benchmark companies D&I performance A D&I reputation and rating system that leverages AI and data driven capabilities to design a reputation and rating system or index is a game changer to provide a benchmark Glassdoor provides some company reviews, for example, but these are too general and not specific to D&I and do not allow users to make informed decisions about the D&I performance of the organization. Why A Solution The Internet has enabled new marketplaces for goods and services, including accommodation and rentals using Airbnb, food delivery using Grubhub, ridesharing using Uber and Lyft, and shopping using eBay that has thousands of sellers from more than thirty different countries. These platforms enable new kinds of transactions and have benefited from AI and data driven and AI reputation and rating systems to build trust and guard against low quality services and products. Similarly, a D&I trust, reputation and rating system will drive more accountability, trust and create lasting D&I experience for all customers. Ethics is at the core of any successful organization and it is time to implement a consistent and robust industry index for D&I leveraging AI and data. Human capital is the foundation of company success and a D&I industry rating and benchmark tool is a lasting solution and investment in human capital and it will create credibility for the company that participates thus solving reputation risk problems The tool has opportunity to generate revenues by charging a small premium fee for corporations and to make it free for external users e.g., customers and job seekers and a percentage of the profits will be pledged/donated to improve D&I in impacted